BY THE AUTHOR SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE INTRODUCED BY POLLY DEVLIN ‘Psychologically sharp, socially knowing and closely knit’ IRISH TIMES ‘She was . . . marvellous’ GUARDIAN ‘A writer of genius’ WALL STREET JOURNAL One glorious gothic mansion – Garonlea – and two rather different ladies who would be Queen . . .Lady Charlotte French-Mc Grath has successfully ruled over her family with a rod of iron until the arrival of Cynthia: beautiful, young, talented, selfish – and engaged to her son Desmond.When Cynthia enters the Jazz Age, on the surface her life passes in a whirl of hunting, drinking and romance. But the ghosts of Garonlea are only biding their time: they know the source of their power, a secret handed on from one generation to the next.
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